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Cricket: The Immortal Game
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11109 |
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CULTURE
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3 / 1986 |
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Brian Wijeratne
Brian Wijeratne learned to play cricket in Sri Lanka, where
he
was Outstanding Cricketer of the Year in 1964. Invited to
play for the MCC in 1968, he was elected a playing member in
1969 and since that time has been active as a player and a
coach. |
Cricket--the ever changeful changeless-game…it's a ritual which concentrates the English summer as nothing else can…The strenuous alliance between devious mind and skilled muscle…is the art of Cricket.
--The Summer Game
Cricket! The very word casts a spell. Cricket! There is magic in the air. It makes one dream of hazy summer days and memories of youth when one robustly engaged in what one now, in life's winter, can only reflect on and reminisce about. Cricket! The eternal vision of happy faces in the glorious sun, an immortal melody that lingers when long evening shadow are cast athwart the greensward and all and sundry wend their way to farpavilions.
Cricket is a ritual that concentrates--nay, encapsulates--the English summer as nothing else can. There are many now spread all over the globe able to look back over the years and distill the pleasure of a life of singularly rich and varied experience.
Anyone who has ever had one moment's enjoyment from cricket, whether from personal action, some flashing stroke that clings like a burr to the memory, or exultation in the excellence of others at village, country, or national level, cannot but feel a desire to offer some tribute to the game, as did Gerald Brodribb in The English Game--An Anthology of Cricket:
"'Tis Cricket I sing, of illustrious fame, No nation e'er boasted so noble a game
Cricket is only incidentally a game. It is primarily an
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